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I'm not sure if this was the right way to go about this. Hax is someone with clear persecutory delusions and imposing consequences and public scrutiny on him like this, however justified, is only going to intensify those delusions.
True, but what else can Smash to's reasonably do? Allow someone with clear paranoid delusions be around others after becoming a laughingstock in the community? It's pretty arguable that it isn't safe for him to be around others, and I doubt many others would feel safe with him around.
 
True, but what else can Smash to's reasonably do? Allow someone with clear paranoid delusions be around others after becoming a laughingstock in the community? It's pretty arguable that it isn't safe for him to be around others, and I doubt many others would feel safe with him around.
Well, the first thing I'd do is try to contact him personally and explain the situation. If he doesn't listen, gets angry or doesn't respond you move to the public stuff. It's possible they've already done that here, though.
 
Not only does it sound crazy, it's also pretty manipulative, don't you think?

Hax wants something changed, so instead of saying "this thing is bad" he catastrophizes to the extreme and says "THIS IS THE WORST THING TO EVER BE! THIS IS HILTER STALIN NAZI BRAIN CONTROL FRANKENSTEIN COMPUTER GOD!" and its almost like emotional blackmail. Now if we don't agree with him and do what he wants, Hitler will takes control and destroy everything and it'll all be YOUR fault! Do you want THAT on your conscience??
yeah I do want it on my conscience
 
If he just made offhanded allusions to dystopia but stayed focused on Leffen as a person he’d be fine.
There shouldn't have been any mentions of or allusions to Dystopia whatsoever. Being a shitty influencer in a gay esports scene doesn't make you a mastermind dictator and a bunch of idiots sucking up to some famous loser isn't a 1984-style dictatorship. Hax should have never brought anything to do with totalitarianism, psychopathy, dark triads or any of that other shit because not only is it fucking ridiculous and obviously untrue, it's also irrelevant. He should have just presented the facts as they were and let the viewer make up their own mind based on the actions Leffen performed himself.

There isn't a "right" way to compare Leffen to Hitler or Charles Manson because they're simply nothing alike, and trying to link them is ridiculous hyperbole and insulting to our collective intelligence.
 
What will Smash Brothers do after Ultimate? Ultimate's branding was "Everybody is invited!"

What will they do for the sequel? All the characters from Ultimate, DLC included will be available Day 1?
It's simple, keep on as usual and bring the whole roster in for the next console and just add more characters and stages.
 
There shouldn't have been any mentions of or allusions to Dystopia whatsoever. Being a shitty influencer in a gay esports scene doesn't make you a mastermind dictator and a bunch of idiots sucking up to some famous loser isn't a 1984-style dictatorship. Hax should have never brought anything to do with totalitarianism, psychopathy, dark triads or any of that other shit because not only is it fucking ridiculous and obviously untrue, it's also irrelevant. He should have just presented the facts as they were and let the viewer make up their own mind based on the actions Leffen performed himself.

There isn't a "right" way to compare Leffen to Hitler or Charles Manson because they're simply nothing alike, and trying to link them is ridiculous hyperbole and insulting to our collective intelligence.
I could see it justified by subtly suggesting something clinical about his behavior, that's what I mean. I also realize subtlety is absolutely not in Hax's toolkit
 
I feel like this would've been solved if Hax had just jumped Leffen when they were dumb kids who could've gotten out of jail time.
 
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Incoming soon, I'm sure everything will be "explained" lol
 
While Hax is a retard, his sentiment is pretty widely echoed by a lot of top players (not the dark tetrad shit, but the general vibe hax wanted to convey). I'm friends with several people that are/have been ranked in the top 100 and leffen has mad narcissistic tendencies. Coupled with Hax's string of shit luck with health-related issues and I could see why someone would get stressed and start comparing an asshole top player to literally hitler. Similar shit happened on a smaller scale to hungrybox as well when he was dominating, albeit for different reasons.

Can't really feel bad for leffen as he is very fond of calling people nazi's himself and the only time he's willing to have dissident ideas is when it comes to smash.
 
Looks like he made the original video private in preparation for evidence.zip 2: definitive edition.

I'm pretty sure he's popped into a few of the streams covering the topic so it'll be interesting to see if he learned a thing or two from his critics of if he's just going to go full Dec. Judging from his tweets I'd say the latter is more likely.
 
Never thought I'd be this hyped about content about Super Smash Bros. Here's hoping it goes even further into the insanity hole.
I want him to go completely off the rails. Saying shit like Leffen's twitter followers are like the secret smash society for lizard people, there exists a Qanon style demonic plot to destory any and all opposition to people who are opposing his grandiose influence and his "Dark Triad" powers and plans to operate entire tournaments under his own rulesets like a dictator by using his clout, money and sponsorship influence to force people to chuck out Hax's gamepads in order to compete in current and future tournaments.
 
Can't be worse than this one:

Black Empowerment Melee Invitational
Banner for Black Empowerment Melee Invitational.
DatesFebruary 4th-7th, 2021
Attendance32
Super Smash Bros. Melee winnersUSA TheRealThing
Director(s)HomeMadeWaffles
Black Empowerment Melee Invitational was an online Super Smash Bros. Melee invitational tournament that was held from February 4th-7th, 2021. Special modes from the Team Akaneia mod were featured as side events. The event featured an all Black line up of players and aims to raise funds towards Black-centric charities. The event raised $8,269 through stream donations alone.[1]
 
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